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My Top Ten: Albums

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In looking back over my posts, I realized that I've never really dived into what my favorites of everything are. Yes, it's fairly easy to see from my reviews where my tastes in film, TV, and music lie, but I wanted to talk specifically about my favorites of pretty much everything. These lists outline my favorites from different genres of music and movies, as well as some more specialized lists. First up is a tough one: my top ten favorite albums of all time. This particular list is actually quite fluid, so there's no guarantee that I'll feel the same way in a month, much less in a year. That being said, at the time of this writing, these are my ten favorite albums in my library. 10. Revolver  - The Beatles (1964) The Beatles' first inclusion on this list is definitely not their last, but it made me fall in love with the Fab Four in high school. Revolver  was a transitional period for the band as they moved from their poppy origins towards a more psychedelic ...

The Classics: Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

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Let's be honest: there's no reason for me to actually review this album. Oasis's seminal masterpiece has been acclaimed by so many different people that it's almost ineffective to say anything good about it anymore. I generally don't like to write reviews of albums that have had more than their fair share of reviews. Yet, there's this feeling that I get every single time the beginning of "Champagne Supernova" comes on that is just an incredible sensation, almost like I'm entering another world. It's an incredible piece of music and one of the most memorable album closers of all time. It's a seven minute song that just feels so much more compact and reasonable because of Noel Gallagher's songwriting and (yes, I'm being entirely serious here) his and Liam's vocal delivery. Granted, as I'm writing this review, I realize that I'm probably very under qualified to be writing anything about Oasis or (What's the Story)...